Archaeologist to describe ‘race’ with active Caribbean volcano

STARKVILLE, Miss—An internationally recognized Rhode Island archaeologist discusses his technology-based explorations on the Caribbean island of Montserrat during a Thursday [April 21] program at Mississippi State. In his presentation titled “Archaeology Under the Volcano: Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat, 2010-2016,” he will describe efforts to capture knowledge and information before Soufrière Hills, Montserrat’s regularly erupting volcano, covers or destroys all physical evidence of early human habitation on the nearly 40-square-mile land mass